Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: Hello Vladimir, [..] > > Also, is there any way I can run the grub command line on a system > > that's already booted, so I can explore its possibities in a context > > where I have interne

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Why do I have to enable tracing to make it work? > > > Because a dprintf acted as a forgotten millisleep. This patch should > fix it. On my machine I still have issues because uhci.

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:45:01PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > There are actually quite a lot of devices like this. Most notebooks > have broken BIOS that won't load the extension ROM from a PCMCIA slot, > if grub could do so it would enable booting from a wide variety of > PCMCIA/CardB

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:28:32PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > And all of this only to make good to someone who would like to see every > > free software die? > > Not all supporters of free software share that philosophy, quite a few > of us like to be able to tell people "that propri

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > [..] > > >> This is just module loading. I guess your terminal is slow which causes >> an enormous slowback when loading module. You can using >> > > >> debug=usb,uhci,ohci >>

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:58:23PM EST, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Why do I have to enable tracing to make it work? > > Yesterday Vladimir wrote: > > (quote) > There is an issue that somewhere grub misses a delay between uhci > c

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
2009/12/4 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >>> Chris Jones wrote: > I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB

Re: [solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > > [..] > >> This is just module loading. I guess your terminal is slow which causes >> an enormous slowback when loading module. You can using > >> debug=u

[solved] Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: [..] > This is just module loading. I guess your terminal is slow which causes > an enormous slowback when loading module. You can using > debug=usb,uhci,ohci > instead of > debug=all I was able to boot the pa

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> > Chris Jones wrote: >> >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. >> >> >> >> >> > You can't

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > >> 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> >>> Chris Jones wrote: >>> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. >>> You can't

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:27:07PM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > 2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > > Chris Jones wrote: > >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. > >> > >> > > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load > > sup

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Barring typos or omissions, the trace reveals that the perceived > > 'hang' after issuing 'insmod uhci' is in fact grub looping over the > > following code: > > /build/buildd/grub2

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
2009/12/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Chris Jones wrote: >> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. >> >> > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load > supported OSes from it. What would be necessary to enable chainload to such devices? In

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:52:37PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Barring typos or omissions, the trace reveals that the perceived > > 'hang' after issuing 'insmod uhci' is in fact grub looping over the > > following code: > > /build/buildd/grub2

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:24:31PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: > >> Chris Jones wrote: >> Can you issue: debug=all insmod uhci insmod usbms debug=all ls -l debug= ls -l And to post the result?

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:24:31PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Can you issue: > >> debug=all > >> insmod uhci > >> insmod usbms > >> debug=all > >> ls -l > >> debug= > >> ls -l > >> And to post the result? Barring typos or omissions, the trace revea

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:24:31PM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> Can you issue: > >> debug=all > >> insmod uhci > >> insmod usbms > >> debug=all > >> ls -l > >> debug= > >> ls -l > >> And to post the result? > >> > > > > Certainly. > > > > Any way

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:02:27PM EST, Duboucher Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 [..] > You could do this easily using a serial null-modem cable, but I don't > think you have one. :( ;-) Another fascinating hardware aspect I never got down to investigating

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> > You could do this easily using a serial null-modem cable, but I don't > think you have one. :( > Also, the uhci module was making Grub2 hang on an HP nc8430, though I > don' remember having reported this here. > There is an issue that somewhere grub misses a delay between uhci commands

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Chris Jones wrote: >> Can you issue: >> debug=all >> insmod uhci >> insmod usbms >> debug=all >> ls -l >> debug= >> ls -l >> And to post the result? >> > > Certainly. > > Any way I could redirect the output to something like a file, both in > the interest of efficiency and accuracy? > No. W

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Duboucher Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones a écrit : > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:16:17AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: > >>> I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. >>> >>> >> You can't chainload to disk invisib

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:16:17AM EST, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. > > > > > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load > supported OSes from it. > > I issued the follo

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Chris Jones wrote: > I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. > > You can't chainload to disk invisible by BIOS. But you can load supported OSes from it. > I issued the following command from the grub command line: > > % insmod uhci > > grub was hung and I had to do a hard r

Re: USB device not seen by grub

2009-12-03 Thread BandiPat
Chris Jones wrote: I am trying to have grub boot off a partition on a USB stick. I issued the following command from the grub command line: % insmod uhci grub was hung and I had to do a hard reset. Is this to be expected, considering that this is a fairly old system and the BIOS knows nothing